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JOCUND SPRING HAS COME
Humorous Poet Sings of its Pleasures
In Rhythmic Measures.
Bird are Twittering: in the Air and
wild all Around u Everywhere,
Mankind Doth Smile.
SPRING the jocund spring has
come.
The birds are twittering in the air and
all around us everywhere mankind doth
smile in hopeful style, in sweet content
and lack of care. The poets thrum their
living lyres. The iceman lays his little
wires. The hurdy-gurdy man aspires
and wealth acquires.
For spring has come.
0, everyone is on the grin, and Coney
Isle will soon begin to gather in the sur
plus tin amid the barkers' fearsome din.
And soon we'll dine in weather fine on
balconies above the sea and take a dip,
and have a sip of something good for
you and me.
Aye, just a wink and just a drink.
How happy then we all will be !
A little ice within a glass, a little shake,
a little pass, a little crook, a blissful
look, and O, the fragrance of the mint !
The auto, too, will set a pace among
the farming populace, annihilating time
and space with joyful hoot and brassy
toot and horrid goggle-eyed grimace.
The chickens, too, will lay again.
What joy to see th' industrious hen
steal soft away, her egg to lay up in
the mow upon the hay, and what a
row she raises when her task is done !
And how the farmer's children run to
see what Speckled Jane has done !
The gentle housewife will be seen in
tent upon the great spring clean, while
on the mat you'll see our cat a-wonder-ing
what these doings mean.
And marble time !
What strenuous play will while away
each happy day! With heart of gold
and knees of clay the small boy now is
here to stay.
"Fin everies !" you hear him sing.
The marbles in a magic ring he
knuckles down with anxious frown.
0, blissful spring !
The circuses are in the air. You see
their posters everywhere. The girl in
tights our eye delights. The equestrienne
is also there. And what can fill us
with such glee as the odorous menagerie
with the behemoth a-sweating blood (a
truly awful sight to see) ?
And how the tent is still as death and
each one of us hold his breath, when
the lions roar as through the door the
tamer steps and looks them o'er !
A few of us the other day were seated
hi a chaste cafe, and as we drank to the
health of spring our conversation ran
this way.
"The peach crop is dead sure to fail."
"In Kansas now it soon will hail."
"And the silly goats will rock the
boats."
"And the fat men will discard their
coats."
As conversation makes one dry, we
bad another ball that's high and then
again, took up the sad refrain :
"The skeeters now will soon rejoice."
"The baseball fan will howl and jeer."
"I wish that cuss would lose his
voice."
"The end-seat hog will soon be here."
"0, dear."
And the bill collector he will come
with burly speech and manner grum.
"Last winter's coal bill's here?" he'll
say.
"Will you please call some other day?"
Then he'll upbraid :
"I want this paid, or else Til sue !"
Then knock him down and crack his
crown and ask him whom he is talk
ing to.
And when the sky is blue as blue,
you'll walk out with a girl or two, with
golden hair and a baby stare and a waist
that's awful peek-a-boo. And the busy
bee will busy be, and you'll take a rest
down by the sea, and there you'll see
more girls, b'gee, in fact, most every
where they'll be.
And the watermelon will come in. The
sun will blister up your skin, and if a
man has a coat of tan he'll be as proud
of it as sin.
The strawberry shortcake will be here.
The cantaloupe will reappcr. The hoky
poky man you'll see and the man with
the pea and thimbles three.
And as we sat in that chaste cafe, 0,
don't think we forgot to say :
"The ice-cream soda man."
"And the large size palm leaf fan."
"And the girl in white."
"And the fish that bite and the horse
that also ran."
So clash the cymbals, bang" the drum!
For spring the jocund spring has come !
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Sunday EpUcopal Hrlci.
Ucv. Alfred Evan Johnson, Providence,
K. I., will conduct the Episcopal service
at the Village Hall at 10 a. m., tomorrow.
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HARRINGTON MILLS
PROPRIETOR
WIIITKFACE 155, Lake Placid, If. Y.
A Resort Hotel of the Highest Class.
Summer Resort
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA.
The Princess Anne Hotel, one of the most delightfully situated hotels in
the south, only 300 feet from the ocean waves. The gulf itream which is near
by'makes the climate mild in winter, average temperature Feb. to May 60 de
grees. Here you avoid the enervating effects of the climate further south.
Great pine forests skirt the beach. The mingling of the salt air with the ozone
of the pines makes this the most charming of resorts.
We conduct our own farm and dairy, plenty fish and oysters, thus assuring
our guests the best of everything for the table. Beautiful drives through the pines
and along the beach. Splendid golf course. Best wild fowl shooting in Amer
ica. You cannot come to a spot where you will be more charmed than here.
WHITE FOB BOOKLETS TO
JAMES S. GROVES, President and Manager.
SUMMER RESORT
MOTEL
Beach Bluff, Moss.
PRESTON,
H. 1A. Priest.
Proprietor.
ESTABROOK & EATON'S
WELL KNOWN BRANDS OF
Imported and Domestic Cigars
Are now on Sale at the Pinehurst Hotels, Store and
Bowling Alley.
Cobb, Bates & Yerxa Co.
Importers and Grocers
Hotels, Clubs and families supplied with the choicest goods in the
market.
Orders by mail given prompt and careful attention.
222 Summer Stkeet, (wholesale) 55 Scmmeb Street,
274 Fkiesd Street, 87 & 89 Causewat Street,
6 & 8 Faxeuil Hall Sqcabe.
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